Watercolor Tips and Tricks for Painting Realistic Animals

Today I’m sharing some tips and techniques for painting a realistic African cheetah, while diving deeper into the importance of EDGES in your design. I’ll show you how to achieve soft edges and hard edges in watercolor, why a variety of edges is important, and explain in more detail how you can use the wet in wet technique and the wet on dry technique in combination with each other for amazing and realistic results! Download my FREE Watercolor Jump Start Guide ➡️ For the full-length, real time, narrated version of this CHEETAH tutorial ➡️ h If you enjoy this video, please give it a 👍 and if you decide to try this painting for yourself, I’d love to see it! Just tag me on Instagram @e_olson_art and I’ll check it out! In this video I’m using a very special handmade bamboo handle brush by Tracy Lebenzon. If you want to use brushes that are as unique as your own artwork i